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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 09:57 AM
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U.S. Customs Agent Found Dead in Atlanta
By ELIOTT C. McLAUGHLIN, Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA - Hundreds of law officials extended their massive search for a man suspected in a courthouse triple slaying as officials on Saturday tried to determine whether the fatal shooting of a U.S. customs agent was related.



The agent was found dead Saturday, and officials said his blue 1994 Chevrolet pickup, pistol and badge were stolen.


The shooting occurred in the same general area where courthouse rampage suspect Brian Nichols used to live.


"We don't know if this is the same suspect," Fulton County Police deputy Chief G.D. Miles said. "Whoever is driving this pickup truck is a cop killer."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&ncid=533&e=1&u=/ap/20050312/ap_on_re_us/courthouse_shooting
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:00 AM
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1. CNN also breaking with this...
Edited on Sat Mar-12-05 10:04 AM by Cooley Hurd
Who does Nichols think he is, Rambo???

(if Nichols is involved with this, that is...)

Police looking for 1994 blue Chevy pickup Lic plate - APG2161...
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Donailin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:03 AM
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2. sigh
went to bed last night without watching the full coverage of this story. Sick to death of news that is irrelevant to my life considering the biggest scandal in american history happening everyday under our very noses commited by rich powerful white men.

Woke up this morning to every channel and aol front page screen of a wanted aremd and dangerous black man. Yesterday before this happened the black man was Michael Jackson which was being covered 24/7.

I am reminded of Bowling for Columbine.
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SlavesandBulldozers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:18 AM
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3. Michael Jackson is black?
Edited on Sat Mar-12-05 10:19 AM by SlavesandBulldozers
that's certainly news to me.

I agree with the premise of your post, though. You can see the exhilaration in the eyes of the broadcasters as they think "Hot damn we got a cop-killer, courthouse escape by a big black man. It's a trifecta!"
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:20 AM
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4. Well it is good to put on black people so we will not see the rich white
men rob us blind in congress and the WH. What are they doing in DC?
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jmcgowanjm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:24 AM
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6. IMHO-the 2 are merging into a gangster culture
The Chicago judge, cops find the killer
who kills himself w/ suicide note attached
-Al Capone
The Untouchables
Jacko in the pj's-my wife, out of the blue, says
he's a gangster.
A judge killed.
This Atlanta guy, did you see the security tape?
Could he have been more at ease walking
down that staircase, w/ a suit on already.
Smart enough to ditch the car out of sight
in the same garage.

Meanwhile the suits in DC couldn't
be more naked in their greed.

Grab everything and duck.

But be positive! And act innocent.
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:11 AM
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18. You mean like this?
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Sterling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:22 AM
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21. I agree.
nt
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itzamirakul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:29 AM
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26. At this point, I THINK that I sympathize with the Judges affected
in both murder cases...but the truth is...so many judges have "sold out" to big corporations and special interests that they might just be getting their "just desserts." I think that I will just wait and see before I allow my sympathies to overtake my emotions.

Sometimes the tragedies in our lives are just Karma or "turn about is fair play."

I can't speak for anyone other than myself, but in all of my years of living, retribution for any unkind or selfish act I may have caused to affect someone else was very swift in paying me back. That's why I think twice or even three times before I say or do anything DELIBERATELY to hurt someone else. The best thing is to ask yourself..."Would I want this to happen to ME?"
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:57 AM
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11. you are right on, I feel/felt the same way--I swithed to music--music that
sooths my soul--give me that ol' time rock and roll.
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:06 AM
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15. Bowling for Columbine
is exactly right. The media has what it treasures the most in news. An out of control and very dangerous Black man. Be very afraid. Cha-Ching!
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:22 AM
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5. GBI director Keenan on CNN says, "they only call me in..."
"...when they're (murder cases) connected."

So CNN is now implying that this murder and the incident at the Fulton County Courthouse are related...
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drdon326 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:35 AM
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7. Does anyone have proof that this guy is guilty ??
Anyone find it funny how this has pushed *'s raping of SS off the front page?

Coincdence ??....i think not.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:39 AM
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8. I proudly wear my tinfoil fedora...
...but this man's actions are no more tied to the Chimp than my dog's bowel movements are.

As far as CNN's non-stop coverage is concerned, this is infotainment (murder, suspense, and now another murder possibly tied to this man), and that's their biz - they stopped being a real news network long ago...
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:07 AM
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Sterling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:24 AM
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22. I don't see the connection either but he may not be guilty of what he was
charged with. However at this point it does not matter. He is guilty of murder and a whole lot of other shit he has done since yesterday.
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drdon326 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:26 AM
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24. Sorry, I dont believe everything in the MSM....
and whats youre dogs name...ROVEr??
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:27 AM
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25. *snarf*
That was funny!:hi::thumbsup:
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:42 AM
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9.  MSNBC reports Brain Nichols had two knives hidden in his socks the day
Edited on Sat Mar-12-05 10:44 AM by oasis
before the court shooting. :wtf:

What kind of idiots have only one deputy guard this guy the very next day after finding two knives in his possession? And a female deputy that he can over power. :wtf:
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Blue to the bone Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:59 AM
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13. Come on now Oasis...I'm sure he just wanted to do....
....the judges nails with those knives.

Dumb fucks caused the deaths of a judge and the court reporter.
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Sterling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:26 AM
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23. That was what I was saying yesterday and got flamed for "blaming the cops"
Bother.
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Cookie wookie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:43 AM
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10. What I want to see is 24/7 coverage
of 100,000 Iraqis and US troops killed in a war based on lies. 24/7 coverage of all the men, women, and children, little babies, killed in a war based on unmitigated greed and lust for money and power. How about 24/7 coverage on all channels on tv of torture of people in US run gulags, most of whom are not even charged with crimes, torturing them to death, implications that go all the way to the White House of complicity in authorizing such detentions and torture.

But instead, the ghouls and perverts who have their faces on tv "news" as supposed news anchors make this tragedy into a fun fest of wall-to-wall coverage.

Is this coverage racist? They did much the same thing when the white guy, Mark Barton, the "day trader" killed 2 people and shot others, including his family, in 1999.

Would only be racist if we think in terms of the overall behavior of the "press" toward people of other countries who are of different races and how their lives somehow just don't seem to count, IMO.

I haven't watched any of this blood fest but couldn't escape hearing about it.
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Blue to the bone Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:57 AM
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12. And just last night they figured out that the car they looked for all...
....day, was still in the parking garage!!!!

Dumb fucks....just cause someone said they saw it drive away, they didn't search the parking garage.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:06 AM
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Blue to the bone Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:07 AM
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17. At the rate they're going, they'll be lucky to find the fucker. n/t
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Blue to the bone Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:14 AM
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19. CNN reporting hostage situation right now. n/t
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:15 AM
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20. CNN Breaking: Hostage situation north of Atlanta (Gwinett County)...
Edited on Sat Mar-12-05 11:19 AM by Cooley Hurd
...no word if this is Nichols. :crazy:
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 11:35 AM
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27. CNN Breaking: Nichols in custody
Just now...

Apprehended at appt complex in which he was holding someone hostage.
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